Friends of Coleridge

Cultivating interest in the life and works of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle | Chair: @gregmleadbetter | Membership open to all

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Thinking about memory? Contemplate with us. Excerpt from our Winter 2025 Bulletin:

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Our Contents Winter 2025!

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While steady Virtue guides his mind
Heav'n-born Content he still shall find
That never sheds a tear:
Without respect to any tide
His hours away in bliss shall glide
Like Easter all the year.- STC, Easter Holidays

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Winter 2025 Coleridge Bulletin out now!

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"...What time the morning sun of hope arose,
And all was joy; save when another's woes
A transient gloom upon my soul imprest,
Like passing clouds impictured on thy breast..." STC, "Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village"

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On 23 February 1821, John Keats died in Rome at 25.
He once wrote: “If I should die… I have left no immortal work behind me…”
He was wrong. He wrote poetry that has proved immortal — work that still resonates today.
To mark the day share a line of his that has stayed with you.

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"Awake, my soul!  not only passive praise/ Thou owes!  not alone these swelling tears,/ Mute thanks and secret extacy!" - STC "Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouny"

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Dear FOC, please see below for an exciting excursion:

Walk Exmoor Weekend - Porlock Pilgrim's Trail.  28th/29th March 2026

For further information and to book:
https://t.co/qocw2m8UhP

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"Now I recentre my immortal mind
In the deep sabbath of meek self-content;
Cleansed from the vaporous passions that bedim
God's Image, sister of the Seraphim." -STC, "Ode To The Departing Year"

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"Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat" -Sara Coleridge, "The Garden Year"

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"Dull November brings the blast;
Then the leaves are whirling fast"
-Sara Coleridge, "The Garden Year"

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Happy Birthday to Samuel Taylor Coleridge! "Epitaph" by STC:

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"Fresh October brings the pheasant;/ Then to gather nuts is pleasant" -Sara Coleridge, "The Garden Year"

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"The lovely lady, Christabel, /Whom her father loves so well, /What makes her in the wood so late, /A furlong from the castle gate?" - STC "Chistabel"

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"All in a hot and copper sky, /The bloody Sun at noon, /Right up above the mast did stand, /No bigger than the Moon." STC, Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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"Warm September brings the fruit;/ Sportsmen then begin to shoot." - Sara Coleridge, "The Garden Year"

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"August brings the sheaves of corn, /Then the harvest home is borne" -Sara Coleridge "The Garden Year"

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"Here Wisdom might resort, and here Remorse;/ Here too the love-lorn Man who, sick in soul/ and of this busy human heart aweary,/ Worships the spirit of unconscious life/ In tree or wild-flower. -- Gentle Lunatic!"- STC, The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution

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I am pleased to announce our new website: https://t.co/b0smbM4epd.  Please note the Bulletin archive as well as a new "donate" function.  Keep a bookmark on the "Events" tab, as we will update this with our latest happenings!